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Authors: E. Thomas (Tom) Wood, John Egerton, David Halberstam, Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce Feiler, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Lamar Alexander, Fred Russell, Hal Crowther, jeff obafemi carr, numerous other authorsMulti-author project depicting in words and images the life of an American city in the course of the year 2000, when Nashville was in the news for reasons ranging from the Tennessee Titans’ Super Bowl season to the disputed presidential election in which favorite son Al Gore lost his home state.
I conceived the book in partnership with historian John Egerton, secured funding from a venture capital firm, and recruited and developed chapter concepts with a majority of the authors involved. Southern Living magazine hailed book as “a monumental undertaking” and “a glorious tribute.” Nashville Scene reviewer cited my “commandingly” written chapter on power and money dynamics in the city (http://bit.ly/PowerSteering).
Chapter 5: Power Steering — A meditation on money and power in Nashville, circa May 2000.
Practice, Man, Practice! — How the Nashville Symphony got to Carnegie Hall, and what it meant for the city
“Nashville was my graduate school” — Journalist/author David Halberstam’s reflections on his time in Nashville, as published in the book
